The educationally challenged American school district / Evans Clinchy -- A journey toward autonomy / Linda Nathan and Larry Myatt -- Smarter charters? : creating Boston's pilot schools / Robert Pearlman -- The state's role in shaping a progressive vision of public education / Dan French -- A day in the life of a teacher in a small school / Meredith Gavrin -- Why wasn't I taught this way? / Ellalinda Rustique-Forrester -- The transformation of one large urban high school : the Julia Richman education complex / Ann Cook -- Birthing new visions schools / Beth Lief -- School reform : a system's approach / Judith A. Rizzo -- The role of a union in school-system reform / David Sherman -- Inching toward reform in New York City : the coalition campus schools project / Linda Darling-Hammond ... [et al.] -- Can the odds be changed? : what it will take to make small schools ordinary practice / Deborah Meier -- Contexts of productive learning, governance, charter schools, pilot schools, the creation of settings, and the wailing wall / Seymour Sarason -- The new American school district / Evans Clinchy.